RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:31318

Info

RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 31318
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 22 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 30 2008 02:29PM
Credit: Jeremy Brown
Vulnerable: University of Washington imapd 0
GNU Mailutils 0
Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
Debian Linux 3.1 mips
Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
Debian Linux 3.1 arm
Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
Debian Linux 3.1
Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus IMAP Server 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

Multiple vendors' IMAP servers are prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability caused by an unspecified error when handling IMAP login requests.

An attacker can exploit this issue to make the affected applications unresponsive, denying service to legitimate users.

This issue affects:

University of Washington imapd
Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus IMAP Server
GNU Mailutils imapd

NOTE: Reports indicate that this issue arises when the affected serves are used with the Debian Sarge platform. Therefore these issues may affect only Debian-specific instances. We will update this BID as more information emerges.

UPDATE: The issue is being retired because it has been determined not to be a vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

RETIRED: Multiple Vendors IMAP Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report